Grass-destroying machine.



0. C. VETTERMANN.

GRASS DESTHOYWG MACHINE. APPLICATmN HLED 1m01.191s. REMEWED DEC. r2.19ls.

wnmesse BY MN ATTORNEY which extends longitudinali and is disposed in spa upon vertical f at their lower end tending` portion o members 13.

The roller 81 i located therebenea cleaning roller 36 its surface with radi inter-engagement wi roller 31, said roller 8 ed u on a shaft vertical frame membe has Iixedly supported 38 for mesh' gear 39 rotata wheels 11, and to the shaft 37, aroun chain 41, which sprocket 42, iii'tedl 30 'of the commi s rocket 42 is pre siderably greater 40, in orde ment may t and 36. The upper a sprocket 43 around w said chain also mentioned sproc et 2 roller.

The rear wardly clination to feed thereon dow frame designated generali therein which frame com disposed in cont members of the sha 45. being supported through the mediu otal connection at members 46 shakeiiame movement'.

stretched between the L"frame47,"iiie a trio 48 disposed which meiiiber 4 perforated or other degree of i'ienqgs of thema ferent 'insiiibers" screenl member b those exhiben itchine is dl'iawiialotigth "i $9 n P 0 iP chine, th en@ bii, rie'lr is tra tetti. ..Y

' 11mm-Q .qmn-,lfl-uillg' r9 similarly pro ally extendin th the teeth 6 being likew dcwnw ardly at the' :the material from the frame in of links 47 har their ends to and 19 reSpec 45 may be' gi Itheside members 46'of manufacture. i;

vT sln mmbels Y While-I have illustrated and described myf oraminous. n

lof thodifservethe right and privi egeof 'chan' thus, the lower form of. the detils of construction ono' liner mesh than wigs altering t i '4 atiomfthe mawithout departing from the spirit of theii'n. by animals ventionnrftlie scope o of the cylinder endless carrier in an obvious manner. The el.

tion therefrom carrier is actuated to move the upper stretch mbers sup orted thereof in an upward direction, thereby s upon the forwar l excarrying the soilincluding the weeds and f the horizontal rame Iquack' grass the upper end of the carrier whereupon t e earth and grass are caught 7o s a comminutin roller, and by the teeth of the .comminuting roller. and th in para elism is am pulled or votherwise forced between the stavided upon tionary teeth 33 whereupon the ve tation g teeth for is torn and .loosened from the soil. he soil '32 ofthe and torn plants are carried over and depos- 75 18e mountited upon the upper screen member 48; and d in the owing to the motion of the machine over the The shaft B7 ground,' the shaker frame 45 is given an thereupon a spur gear oscillatory movement whereby 'the 'rei'iiam h a similar ing earth is shaken from the roots ofthe a0 f thesuppol'tm plants, 'and eriiittedA to fai-l throii h the t 40 is also secure meshe of t e screen section 48 t ereby d which passes Il cleaning the plants. The comminted asses around il lents will thus be redepos'ited upon the 'suru n the shaft The rupted condition, whereby life inther'nY is diameter conthan that of the a different ratio o between the ro Shaft 30 also Supports ment between the comminuting roller B1 and L ace of the ground in a more or less is 85 destroyed, and action of the elements from rocket either the sun or frost will subsequentlyv de- Owing' to the ratio of the rate of move- BD hh u Chain 44 liasses: the lower cleaning' roller: '36, any plants d the befof?? which'fnay be caught'iiponthe teeth32 of 9 0f the Upper @Tuer the commnutng roller gwill be'remoyed therefrom lby the teeth of the lower rolle'r' N shaker frame19-isextni1ed'r whereby the comminutng ,rollerJis eon- P`.1`0 I1e `1' vstantly cleaned and maintainedin'an ejicif deposited j fi, dasheker 44Thin., n wiii be seen sin `1 have revises is disposed a novel and eil'ective` machine wlie're v .quack 100 rises side bar S grass may be absolute?'destroyedf'mdahs NIOD t0 im frame roots thereof disrupts Mn@ 19, Sind frame manner that further 1p l(pagationj oiwthe tive condition.

plant is 4 impossible. ave furthermore .mg PW- provid'ed a machine in which` the 'parte 1ct the fram? thereof are arranged in a new a'nd ;i" 1 `c'ive1 hleby the manner, and wherein all unnecessary meci osoiiaiory nis-m isiiisinsied, thereby inni Simp d spaced relation, invention with some degree .'ofprticulasity 'formed of wir? mesh, Iy realise. that in 'praetie @riens eltfiitih? mtrlilli the thereover may'bemade'ynd f the appended con lied to the, siilky Having thus described my invention L iiiiliat lli motion of the nia- I clanias new. and desireto securehji .Loti isedfrom'theground i. i v iitiireoi the imol'ci In 2p gradestroying machine I he eiiilless` ia rl a p'air of siiiced bars within the .hariiw ngi wheelsll plurality q the medium e'kets 4 0kan tersPatcntis.: Y

aimee 19ers rines ris-idlmeni'i l u md to permit movement of the bers toward away from ewch other longitudinaly when 10 andaway from eah other as well as longithe structure is agitated.

tudinally, a trough shaped strlp of wire In testimon w ereof I aix my signature fabric ai regttiwlzly coarse mash drsposfed bein presence o two witnesses.

tween t e i 0e s, a secon stri o wire 1 fabric of ne mesh dis sed there tween in OTTO C' VETTERMANB' spaced relation to the strip, and a third Witnesses:

stri located between said strips of inbr- R. KRAMER,

m iete mesh, said bars moving toward and 

